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THE HELENA DAILY INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY. MAY 19, 1940 MONTANA flEt A A A JJ Wallace Asks Grain Markets to Peg Prices at Present Level TO If SEMI RECENT BREAK IS MOST SER10VS IN MODERN EXPERIENCE Washington, May emergency action to halt modern history's most break In wheat prices, Secretary Wallace asked the nation's grain futures markets to peg prices at not less than today's closing quota- Uons. The request was telegraphed to market officials after wheat prices, reflecting uncertainty over the European war, tumbled 10 cents a bushel--the limit permitted in any tingle day by market rules--for the third time this week. Tho net loss for the week was about SO cents. Wallace's request, if acceded to by the markets, would establish minimum prices of 79 cents a bushel for May wheat futures and 6 9 cents for May corn futures at Chicago, the nation's principal grain market.

Will Cooperate (Officials of the Chicago hoard of trade indicated every effort would be made to cooperate with the Secretary's wishes.) Wallace's action came shortlj after Canadian authorities had pegged prices at Winnipeg at yesterday's closing figures. While Agriculture department officials explained that the prlc pegging request was designed as a "temporary measure against fur ther price disturbances from cur rent war developments," there was speculation In official quarters that the government might turn outright price-fixing as an emer gency policy to protect prices and Incomes of producers of not only wheat and other grains, but cotton as well. Virtually all farm commodi ties have been affected by price de dines this week. Whether the government hss au thority to establish minimum com i prices WES debated by Agrl culture department officials. Somi held that legislation bi necessary.

Chnngea Hinted Hints of 'possible changes In ad ministration farm policies to nice conditions arising the wa were contained In reports a President Roosevelt was holding action on a grower wheat-loan pro gram for the 1340 crop pending "resurvcy" of conditions. The loan program had been sub milled to the chief executive by th Agriculture department as a mea ure designed to bolster prices. Sue a program would require million of dollars of government fund while price-fixing would requlr none. Tho latter measure, govern ment economists said, would more effective In stabilizing price More for Your Money Full 0 Cn. Ft.

Frlgldnlro Carlson Appliance Co. 131 N. Main Phone 160 IS 10 CHANGE PUNS OF IUDEFENSE RADITIONAL AMERICAN POLICY MUST ALL BE REVAMPED By K1RKE SIMPSON Dark omens from Europe's rearms batlleflelds in France and landers hover over the American ntlonal defense front as well as ver London and Paris. Hour by hour the war news Is tchlng a new and tragic back- round against which a complete ecasting of traditional American ofense policy has already started, "hat policy Is being reshaped lo race the nation against even un- oreseeable eventualities that might ring it some day to fight alone maintain American ideals against a world dominated by conceptions nd philosophies alien to Ihe Amer- can creed. Stripped to Its bones, that is rhlte President Roosevelt has said congress In presenting a new mergency program aggregating more than a billion dollars for quick jpanslon of tho national defense.

Details of that plan, even its size, minor items In comparison to he revolutionary change in the making of policy it actually rcpre- ents. All Scrapped Behind that program lies the conviction of the nation's chosen eaders, Its most experienced and service-seasoned military and naval commanders, that eight months of war in Europe have scrapped all American defense theories of the past. Even before word of new Jerman victories In Belgium and a brought Immeasurably eloper the possibility of complete Allied defeat in the war, a grave defect in American defense planning had impressed Itself on responsible leaders from the White House down. It is not a Question merely of controversies over particular typas of weapons. This -writer can state on unchallongable authority that it a revision of the whole fabric cf national defense planning and preparation against war at which the administration Is aiming.

American war plans, framed within the innermost high command circles of the sister services, have for years been shaped to ac- lualitles. They reckoned with known and definite military Quantities such as fleets, armies and equipment against this country might have to fight. Belgian Street: British Reenact Old World War Scenes Gennan Planes Bomb Little French Town, Then Return to Machinegun People Trying to Aid the Injured By H. TAYLOR HENRY With the French Army, Somewhere In Belgium, May -Standing In front of a Tillage church, I saw a squadron of some 30 German planes carry out a raid today. In a nearby field, a farmer continued his ploughing.

About 10 miles away, the Germans started dropping tbeir bombs. French and Belgian antiaircraft guns opened up, adding puffs of smoke from their bursts to wisps of clouds. Out from the west a French and British tighter squadron suddenly appeared, scattering the German planes. One plane dived toward our group, and we Jumped to a stone wall for protection against the machlnegun bullets which expected to spatter against us. The plane pulled out of the dive, however, and returned to the com bat, which was not spilt up.

One of the aerial fights ended In death for an unidentified British pilot--but not before he had downed one of three German planes attacking him from the front, rear and above. (NBA Radlo-Telephoto) Amid a scene of ruin and desolation in an unnamed Belgian town British Tommies man ch ne 1 ln against Invading nail forces. Note the ruins from sheUflre In the background. Picture passed by British censors, radioed from London. CALIFORNIA TOWNS HIT BYJQUAKES (Continued from Page 1) It was Ihe first shock of sufficient force to do any damage to be reported In Arlzonla since 1934, when a quake of about the same intensity occurred.

The strongest quake In Arizona history was in the 1880's In the Tucson area. FOREIGNER IS HELD IN SEDENJRJSPIfllGE Stockholm, May Police announced Ihe arresl of a foreigner of unstated nationality, identified as Rudolf Fleck, on espionage charges. Fleck was charged with having conveyed to a foreign power infor- mallon concerning Sweden's defenses which he obtained while posing as a journalist. BANKRUPT SALE The slock of merchandise, also slore fixtures and equipment, of Painter's Cash Grocery will bo jolcl at bankruptcy sale on Tuesday. a 21sl, 1040.

at 1 0 0 0 n. at the office of tho referee in bank- lup'tcy. Room 2, Galen building, Helena, Montana. Seak-d bids for any or nil portions of this property will be received by Ibo undersigned until 3:00 o'clock a. the day or Bids to be accompanied by cash equal to of a bid.

Right reserved lo reject any or all bids. For further Information, I i of the undersigned. HELEN ASSOCIATION OF CREDIT MEN, TRUSTEE IN BANKRUPTCY 20 West Slitli ARTIFICAL mineral Spring Water ICE COMPANY Beer DMributori TELEPHONE 358 For Everlasting Grave Protection Use a reinforced concrelu grave vault. THE CONCRETE VAULT WORKS Carl Peterson Phone 468-J hampered In making an accurate survey of the damage. Bridges collapsed in some sections of the valley, the largest vegetable producing area in the West.

Fissures were opened In sections of highways. The earth shocks were felt also in Blythe, Indlo, Needles and in Yuma and Ariz. The Soulhern California Telephone company was advised by Ha Yuma office lhat walls of several buildings there were cracked by tho quake and numerous windows wore broken. It declared no one was injured there, however. The Imperial Valley, of which El Centro is the principal city.

Is Iraversed by the San Andreas fault, the most famous of the faults thai slice California. Tho selsmologleal laboratory of the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena was closed tonight and its records of the quake were not available. On Record Its instruments recorded a heavy shock at 10:04 p. m. M.S.T.

last night, however, which it eslimaled as 100 miles east of Pasadena. Although the selsmologlsls expressed Ihe belief 11 was grenl enough to have caused damage, no reports of Its effects were received. It was followed by other shocks, almost as heavy, at 10:61 and 12:23 a. m. and at least a dozen smaller ones later.

The telephone operator in Imperial said thai "virtually every building on the Main streel was wrecked" by tho force of the earth shock, which was recorded at 9:36 o'clock (MST). Two persons were reported to have been killed there. One man was killed as the El Contro hotel collapsed, showering bricks Into the street. El Centro police said more than 30 persons had been takon to hospitals. The Southern California Telephone company said Its El Centro office reported that "all Ihe windows belween fifth and sixth streets" In tho business sccllon of El Centro were broken but that the buildings themselves did nol collapse.

The two principal motion picture theaters were filled with the Saturday night crowds, the telephone company source said, but all the spectators were evacuated without injuries. Faint In Many women on the streets fainted with fright at the first heavy shock, It reported. In Brawley, police said the quake was felt almost continuously from 9:36 p. m. to 10:16 p.

m. Glass store windows were broken and walls cracked. The shock was felt la Long Beach, San Bernardino, Pasadena and other communities near Los Angeles, bnt was slight at those points. Yuma, was plunged Into darkncsi when the first shock threw down lines of the Arizona Edison company and the Nevada-California. Eleclrlo company.

Sheriff T. H. Newman at Turns reported that a number of persons suffered minor Injuries. Spectators In one downtown theater were thrown into a panic when the lights railed anil the building shook, loosening plaster upon them, ushers got them out safely, however. NAVY MAY ACT San Diego, May Naval authorilles said they were awaiting Instructions from Red Cross and Imperial Valley officials before sending detachments of blue- jackets to the quake zone for patrol duty.

Major Gen. John H. Lymen, U.S. M.C., ret. head of Ihe local Red Cross, said he had received no call for aid from Iho valley, bul was assembling personnel and malerial ready for instant service, If needed.

Capl. Jesse B. Gny, chairman of Iho disaster prepl redness and emergency relief section of the Red Cross, reported he was standing by for orders to proceed to the valley. Tho quake started a. fire In th Intel-national hotel at Mexlcali which to the block which was destroyed with a losi estimated at flOO.OOO.

Two men were injured. Mains Gono Water mains In Mextcall wen broken by the quakes, which con tlnued Intermittently from 7:37 until 9:30 p. m. (M.S.T.) the fir was fought with water pumpc through 1,200 feet of hose from Calexlco, across the Mexican bor der from Moxlcall. Pavements in i a were buckled, bricks rained from uulld Ings and Ihe contents of man! itores wore thrown Into the streets Another shock struck El Contn al 9:36 p.

m. The wall of tho De Rio hotel building thundered to the pround and the rear wall the Pord Motor company's building collapsed. BEGIN IIIIIIIE TO UTTENDJPENTIS (Continued from Page 1) nn uninstructed delegation to Phil adelphia." In addition to the two conven tions, both state central committee will name national commltteeme and commlttcewomen. Dan Whetstone of Cut Bank I the republican national committee man and Mrs. L.

O. Evans of Butt the national commltteewoman. O. S. Warden of Groat Falls 1 the democratic national committeeman and Mrs.

Edith R. Battey Billings the national committee woman. The republican "policy eommi tee," named to work out recom mendallons for a party platform be considered at the August con ventlon meet prior to the conven tlon. Campaign publicity plane will discussed at a session of the G.O.P publicity committee. Vital Statistics MARRIAGE LICENSE James D.

Shaffer, Helena, an Anna Lou Perclch, East Helena. OPP.Td CONRAD FUNERAL HOME E. Blrlli Arrnuc ARIZONA POINTS HHAKEN Phocnli, May slight earth shock was felt in scattered sections of Arizona tonight at 9:38 p. m. (MST), but no injuries and only minor damage was reported.

The quake was felt In Yuma, Tucson, Phoonli, Klnginan, Oatman and other communities. The shock, apparently an offshoot of a heavier quake In southern California, more severe In Yuma than In the other cities. Windows wore broken and furniture was overturned In Phoenix as homes and office buildings awayed. Dishes rattled on shelves and lamps fell from tablet la homes, European plane manufacture bad to perfect in hurry, becau: of the war, a self-sealing i tnnk. Robbie's Electric Supply Electrical Contracting Refrigeration Service We Service All Makes 530 Leslie Phone 101 Helena Ice Co.

Lissner Mineral Spring Water --PHONE 110- For Ice or Water ron Legions of Hitler Sweeping West and South (Continued from Page 1) a drive on the Belgian and rench channel ports. With these ports occupied, It 1 elieved in some circles that th rltlsh -will be given a chance to apltulate or deal with swarms erman bombing planes. Changed Plan The spectacle of the German miles of the left lancing straight ward Paris seems to Justify lh onjecture among military observ rs here that Hitler has changec he classic Graf von Schlelffen plan or a flanking move on Paris. Instead it looks like the German bullet troops" are taking a shor it to the heart of France wlthou ailing for envelopment of retiring llled troops by tho right wing ho army. The right flank, Indeed, seem be employed in seeking to cu ff British forces from seaports an lake their return to England 1m osslble.

The German entry into Antwerp is one of Iho world's 1 uslest seaports in normal tlmei effecled, DNB said, after th uter ring of Ihe city's heavy fort lad been broken In two places. Aro Dispersed On Iho lefl wing, in France, th ligb. command asserted Germa rmored forces penetraled Frenc rentier forllflcalions, dispersed Iw Allied divisions beyond the uppe river and pursued "the re reatfng enemy" southward to tl upper Olse, more than 20 mil south. This on the western end of th deep and -wide pocket which tl Germans have gouged into north ern France. Infantry divisions now are to owing up these troops in "tr nendous marches," and man 'rench prisoners and large supplii have been taken, the Germans sal' South of Sedan, too, the Ge mans claimed southward gains I widen the east end of their Freni pocket whore the Mouse forts iroach tho western anchorage he main Maglnot line.

From the glowing reports of op eratlons in the west German wrl era are turning to Italy's posltlo the Mediterranean. One of the most Influential hem, Karl Megorle of Boerse Zeitung wrote: Knil of Patience "The govornment arid peopl- Italy are at an end of the patient with which they have endure eight months of measures and fects of the British-French bloc ade war. To establish freedom seas for all Is the task, a compllshment of which would brli good to all nations." Possibility of Italy's entrance 1 the war again pushes the fa IFF. OF HER OF HKB.fi TOUGH Washington, May 18--(NBA)-- he average congressman's eager- ess to show he Is independent aded seven earnest house mem- wllh a lot of extra work the ther day. A subcommittee headed by Con- ressman McCormack of Massachu- etts bus been holding hearings on he Patmnn anll-chnin store bill.

Recently. Iho subcommittee issued "last call" for any witnesses who wanted to come in and teslify--and 60 volunleered. Subcommittee, appalled, decided give each man Just five minutes. Unluckily, thai same day some pro- alman oulfll issued a slalemenl enouncing the subcommittee for eltlng Ihe bill's foos lalk It to eath. To have applied the five-minute Imit right after that would have nade it look as if the subcommit- ec was yielding lo pressure; so Ihe boys voted to let each witness have ils full say--and, as a result, will lava to be listening to 'em until well along in June.

Was Hero The British plane crashed abou four miles away from us In meadow. The Belgian peasants with tears In their eyes, told us: "The poor lad. He was a hero He fought with his plane to the very end to keep It from falling into the center of our Tillage. lost his own life, but be save many of ours." In one French town on the fron tier, the official death list of an earlier German raid stands at 3 of whom 1C were children. Bu one bomb made a direct hit on cafe where several score other had taken refuge, destroying I Those are not yet accounted for.

Witnesses of the raid said tha after the Germans had droppe their bombs, they returned an machine-gunned crowds In th streel who were Irylng to help th wounded. McNary Polls Big Vote in Oregon Primary Election Portland, May enator Charles L. McNary, Ore- 'ou's favorite son candidate, ap- eared tonight to have attracted more votes than President Roosevelt in state primary election presidential preference balloting. With only scattered precincts nn- reported, the veteran senate mlnor- ty leader, unopposed for the re- ublican nomination, polled 1,337 of the state's 1,698 precincts. Mr.

Roosevelt piled up an Impressive total over Vice President John Nance Garner, his democratic opponent. In 1,400 precincts In the state's 36 counties Roosevelt received 86,254 rotes to 12,500 (or Garner. The election assured Roosevelt of Oregon's 10 delegates to the republican national meet. With 747 of 836 'precincts reported, Congressman James W. Mott, Salem, republican, had a total of 57.023 against 9,834 for Kenneth A.

Brown, anti-Jewish candidate, for the first congressional district nomlntlon. Moll's opponent in the general election will be Charles A. Robertson, West Salem, unopposed democratic candidate. Nol all black leopards are fierce and untamable. Seallle.

May Elen Kerr Hanley, 26, socially proml- icnt wife of a Seatlle attorney, -was found hanged In bathroom at her parenls' home lale loday. Her mother, Mrs. William Z. Kerr, lold police officers Mrs. Handley had been In ill health and while recuperating had been living apart from her husband, Edward P.

Hanley, Jr. of Switzerland to tho fore, because a campaign In southern Europe might, for strategic reasons alone, envelop this historic neutral In Europe's bonfire. There have been occasional hints In the German press that Switzerland is not as neutral as she might be. The official news agency, DNB, today told the story of the German entry into Brussels, relating that the German troops entered the Belgian capital yesterday without a fight, enemy (British) troops withdrawing beyond the city. SEES G.O.P.

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